Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I’m currently using 4 weeks ago for “now”, since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: “Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report COVID-19 hospital admissions, hospital capacity, or hospital occupancy data.” So I’m no longer tracking hospitalizations.
| COVID Metrics | ||||
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| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Deaths per Week | 922 | 983 | ≤3501 | |
| 1my goals to stop weekly posts. 🚩 Increasing number weekly for Deaths. ✅ Goal met. |
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This graph shows the weekly (columns) number of deaths reported since Jan 2023.
Although weekly deaths met the original goal to stop posting, I’m continuing to post now that deaths are above the goal again – and at a minimum, I’ll continue to post through the Winter.
Weekly deaths had been increasing, and weekly deaths are almost triple the low of 314 in early June 2024.
And here is a graph I’m following concerning COVID in wastewater as of February 13th:
This appears to be a leading indicator for COVID hospitalizations and deaths. This has been moving sideways recently.
Nationally COVID in wastewater is “High” according to the CDC.